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fungor.narro.creo.puto.Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:22:03 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6Comment on Contact Us by Piers Raehttp://nophilistines.com/?page_id=78#comment-443
Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:22:03 +0000http://nophilistines.com/?page_id=78#comment-443Hey!
Love the site. I’m a creative writer from the west coast, and a friend just turned me onto NP. I’m wondering what, if anything, you look for in submissions.
Thanks!
Piers
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Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:26:51 +0000http://nophilistines.com/?p=287#comment-118Ace site, Kevin! This is a great article, and I gotta say, I fully agree 🙂
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Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:17:08 +0000http://nophilistines.com/?p=287#comment-116Good post. Living at home after school with a full house, including my loving-but-overbearing grandparents, I am prone to the occasional bout of minor self loathing. Being away for nearly 3 months doing my own thing out West and then having every move I make scrutinized can be daunting.

But at the end of the day, my fridge is full, delicious meals are waiting for me after work, and all the money I would have to be spending on rent can go to paying off debt and an adventure fund. I look forward to having my own independence and my own space, but in the meantime,

]]>Comment on Is Facebook Failing? by Chrishttp://nophilistines.com/?p=181#comment-71
Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:40:43 +0000http://nophilistines.com/?p=181#comment-71When I hear that facebook is going after the preteen market, it doesn’t really surprise me anymore. The audacious amorality of the profit motive knows no bounds, and happens just incrementally enough – and with enough bullshit marketing – to get people to accept it. I see facebook as a sort of internet tobacco company. Smoking kills you, is addictive and is a shit tonne bad for you, but people – myself included – still smoke. And the graphic images of living cadavers like Barb Tarbox(quite a name) ravaged my cigarette smoke only inspire cringes or sheepishly asking for the picture with the toilet bowl of bloodied pee instead.

Facebook is the same. Everyone knows it is invasive, mines data, sells personal information to advertisers and is becoming more and more of an Orwellian wetdream by the fiscal quarter. And yet, people accept the ridiculous terms of applications, the knowledge that everything you post is collected and all the shady shit in between.

Should people be concerned by the clandestine decisions, slowly enveloping their entire personal life? I think so. Should we be concerned when facebook suggests people you met at the bar 4 hours ago as friends or deliberately deceives you by modifying ads to look real? Absolutely. Will there be a mass movement of protest in the form of deactivation? I think never, at least until we come up with a better, more honest way to share and connect with other humans online. Personally, I’m still waiting for news reports that Zuckerberg and the entire Google team were killed by a cybernetic assasin from a dystopian future where Google, Facebook and Twitter control everything and a strangely dark, comedic way.